TBM-2509.26 – Mermaid Minute: Pearls and Pressure

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Hello and Ciao, my awesome abalones 🐚💎
Today, MeMe del Mare dives into how pearls are really made—not from perfection, but from grit, irritation, and transformation. Just like us.

💬 “Every time someone calls you too much, too loud, too strange—that’s just the grain of sand. What you build around it? That’s your shine.”

🎧 Listen now to hear how mermaids turn trouble into treasure.

#MermaidMinute #KeepSwimmingAndResist #PearlsOfWisdom #PodcastClip #MermaidLife

 

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub and Mermaid Minutes are written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • BathtubMermaid.com header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music clip for this episode is Jolly Roger from Studio Kolumna via Uppbeat (License code: TJPGJXYBWHI7FCUG)

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TBM-2509.22 – Mermaid Minute – Ice Cream Cone Day

MeMe Orange Swimming

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But the best part about ice cream isn’t the cone—it’s the flavors. Landwalkers, you’ve got everything from vanilla bean to rocky road, cotton candy swirl to that weird pickle flavor some hipster dreamed up.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #memedelmare #icecream #icecreamcones #nationalicecreamconeday

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub and Mermaid Minutes are written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • BathtubMermaid.com header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music clip for this episode is Jolly Roger from Studio Kolumna via Uppbeat (License code: TJPGJXYBWHI7FCUG)

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TBM-2509.19 – Mermaid Minute – Talk Like a Pirate Day

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So it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. Which means every landwalker with a striped shirt and a “yarrr” thinks they’ve unlocked the mysteries of the seven seas. Cute. But let’s not forget: the most fearsome pirates weren’t just swaggering men with parrots on their shoulders. Oh no. Some of the sharpest swords, fiercest tempers, and cleverest strategies belonged to women.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #memedelmare #talklikeapirateday #talklikeapirate #annebonny #maryread #femalepiratesruledthewaves

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub and Mermaid Minutes are written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • BathtubMermaid.com header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music clip for this episode is Jolly Roger from Studio Kolumna via Uppbeat (License code: TJPGJXYBWHI7FCUG)

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TBM-2509.15 – Mermaid Minute: Tide Travel

MeMe Orange Swimming

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Landwalkers love to dream about time travel. DeLoreans, phone booths, police boxes. All that fuss about machines to visit the past or peek into the future. But mermaids? Honey, we’ve been at it for centuries — only we don’t call it time travel, we call it tide travel.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #memedelmare #tidetravel #timetravel

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2509.12 – MermaidMinute: Cloud Appreciation Day

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Today is International Cloud Appreciation Day — the one day landwalkers agree that lying on your back and staring at the sky counts as culture.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #memedelmare #cloudapprecationday

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The Cloud Appreciation Society

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2509.08 – Mermaid Minute: Star Trek Day and Ampersand Day

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September 8th is a double holiday: Star Trek Day and World Ampersand Day. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Sure, Star Trek makes sense — but what’s an ampersand?”

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #startrek #startrekday #worldampersandday #ampersand

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2509.01 – Mermaid Minute – Happy Labor Day

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You think mermaids just sit on rocks all day looking glamorous? Please. This ocean doesn’t run itself.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2508.31 – Mermaid Minute: Happy Tails

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But here’s the thing: thirty-one days is the challenge, and I showed up with twenty-nine shiny splashes of podcast sass. And in mermaid math, that still counts as a win.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2508.30 – Mermaid Minute: Jaws Is 50

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Because clearly the best way to honor the movie that made half the world afraid to swim is to make the shark literally jump out of the screen at you.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2508.29 – Mermaid Minute – Underwater Dental Care

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And flossing? Seaweed works fine, but we prefer jelly strands — extra slippery, biodegradable, and if you’re lucky, bioluminescent. Nothing says “fresh breath” like a glow-in-the-dark smile.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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